A River Story was born in the community-building work of the Antioch College Environmental Field Program in the summer of 2001. Its focus was on environmen- tal justice. Ten of us—the two of us recent Antioch graduates, the others current Antioch students—traveled together down the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, visiting communities that have been devas- tated by environmental destruction. People of these communities are fighting brave grassroots battles to save their lives, their health, their land, their water, their sense of place and their sense of justice.